1. The Ariel bloc cuts a similar wedge between north and centre West Bank as the Maale Adumim Bloc does between south and centre, so E-1 Development Plan is about the deliberate atomization of Palestine. Cantonisation. Ghettoisation. Bantustans. Reservations. Apartheid. 2. The E-1 plan uses up the last remaining open …

Saturday, 18 October 2014 16:30 An estimated 90,000-100,000 Palestinian Bedouin lived in Palestine before the Nakba. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s all but about 10,000 were driven from their lands by Zionist militias and – after the establishment of the State of Israel – the Israeli army. The …

Saturday, October 18, 2014 – 11:21 Inter Press Service RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 18 (IPS) – Thirty-year-old Naifa Youssef and 50 other members of her Bedouin community live a precarious life, eking out a hand-to-mouth existence alongside the main road which links Jerusalem with the Dead Sea and the ancient …

By: Stop the Wall on October 14, 2014 The Israeli policies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin communities from the Jordan Valley and the area east of Jerusalem include the construction of three apartheid-style townships. Once expelled, these communities should be relocated there. However, in the last weeks Palestinian campaigners …

This article originally appeared in Haaretz – September 16, 2014 [Photo by Reuters] By Amira Hass Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank is advancing a plan to expel thousands of Bedouin from lands east of Jerusalem and forcibly relocate them to a new town in the Jordan Valley… Article continued on Haaretz.com: …

This piece originally appeared on Israel Social TV – June 18, 2014. This video features interviews with residents of the the Bedouin villages of Al-Arakib and Alsira about the life under the shadow of the Prawer Plan. It may be accessed with both Hebrew and English subtitles.

This article originally appeared in Haaretz – June 1, 2014 [Photo by Olivier Fitoussi] By Amira Hass What does this remind you of? Thousands of people are forced, at gunpoint, to leave their homes. They are herded together and the people with the guns force them to live together, at a …

This article originally appeared in Haaretz – May 21, 2014 [Photo by Mairav Zonszein] By Amira Hass Military training in live-fire zones in the West Bank is used as a way of reducing the number of Palestinians living nearby, and serves as an important part of the campaign against Palestinian …

Rawia Aburabia, 33, says that even though the situation of Bedouin women is bad, a trend of ‘groundbreaking women’ is taking hold. (Originally published by Ha’aretz – Friday, March 28, 2014) By Ayelett Shani You started out as a social worker. What made you decide to go into law? As a …